#50 "RAMBLIN MAN"
THE ALLMAN BROTHERS, 1973

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An already-sublime instrumental play-out is several minutes underway when, seemingly out of nowhere, Dickie Betts’ slide guitar floats in atop the proceedings, sounding like an impossibly high, keening human voice from…where?  Van Morrison’s “Heaven,” perhaps?  This is the same device employed in Clapton’s overrated “Layla,” which usually gets all the publicity, but its use is so much more melodic and pleasing here.

-Miles Miniaci

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